Funny. I've been mostly exposed to imperative programming (learned on BASIC and Pascal), but nowadays I find functional "style" much more intuitive. The proble

Funny. I've been mostly exposed to imperative programming (learned on BASIC and Pascal), but nowadays I find functional "style" much more intuitive. The problem with loops and control structures is that they don't tell, at a glance, what data structure you're operating on and what transformations you're doing. It gets exponentially worse with else clauses and nesting. It just feels bureaucratic to program like that. In a functional style, you have more expressive primitives to work with (map, reduce, filter, fold, ...). That turns the code more concise by focusing on the data structures rather than variable mangling. That said, I find the syntax of most languages (even functional-orientated ones) a chore. This is an area that could improve a lot.